Writers Who Read #41
1 May 2022
Intimacies
by Katie Kitamura
“An intimacy that’s forced upon you is a form of violence.”
- Katie Kitamura
Author/Publisher Intent
Stylistic Choices
Structure, Pacing
Climax - what changed?
Scene sleuthing
Intimacies - Katie Kitamura
- Marketing: Psychological Literary Fiction; Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction; Women's Psychological Fiction
- Genre: Present-Day Archplot Longform
- Print Pages: 238
- Word count: 52,766; Avg. wds/sent.: 17.75
- Reading Grade: 8-10 Lexical Density: 40.93
- Flesch Reading Ease: 65.13
- POV: Narrator; Person: 1st; Tense: Past
- Publish date: July 10, 2021
- Publisher: Riverhead
- Sold By: Penguin / Random House
- Audio book narr.: Traci Kato-Kiriyama (5:26)
- Awards: National Bestseller; Longlisted for 2021 National Book Award; A Top Book of 2021: New York Times (top 10), Barack Obama (list), Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic, Kirkus and Entertainment Weekly
- About Katie Kitamura
- Education
- Undergrad: Princeton; PhD in American literature, London Consortium
- Thesis: The Aesthetics of Vulgarity and the Modern American Novel (2004)
- Writes for
- The Guardian, The New York Times, and Wired
- - Articles on mixed martial arts, film criticism and analysis, and art
- 4 Novels
- The Longshot, 2009
- Gone to the Forest, 2013
- A Separation, 2017
- Intimacies, 2021
- 1 Memoir
- Japanese for Travellers: A Journey, 2006
Novel Countour Map
What is
Vulgarity?
Around the Table
Always refer back to the book
Favorite Sentence?
Writers Who Read: Coming Up
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Summer Break
Start back up again on Sunday, September 4
Gary presenting at RMFW Conference Friday, September 9